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Elon Musk and his team have arrived to kick off the first leg of the rescue mission—saving the astronauts that NASA, Boeing, and Biden left stranded in outer space. More on that in a minute.

But before we get to SpaceX’s epic and historic rescue, let’s take a little moonwalk backwards and see how NASA went from a once highly respected institution to the bloated, woke joke it is today—more focused on hiring minorities and launching gay astronauts into space than on quality, safety, or technological advancements.

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Of course, NASA didn’t get here on its own. It had plenty of progressive help along the way.

What’s happened to NASA is downright shameful, and it raises a big question—was it ever really the gold standard? Many would argue we’ve been sold a bill of goods for decades.

NASA has become a cash-guzzling black hole, lumbering through space like a rusty old dinosaur.

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From lingering doubts about the official moon landing narrative to NASA’s embarrassing DEI agenda and sheer incompetence, the cracks have been showing up for a while now, right? We’ve covered NASA’s struggles from every angle. And who could forget when they lost an $895 million probe?

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Once again, NASA has made headlines, and you might be curious about what happened this time. Did they finally manage to go to the moon? Well, not quite. This time, the experts at NASA lost an $895 million dollar space probe that has been navigating outer space since 1977. Due to a programming error here on Earth, Voyager Two, the probe launched to study outer planets and interstellar space beyond the Sun’s heliosphere, has gone missing. Whoops.

CBS News:

NASA on Friday said it had lost contact with Voyager 2, located nearly 12.4 billion miles from Earth. Contact was disrupted when a series of planned commands on July 21 accidentally caused the antenna to point 2 degrees away from Earth, NASA said.

Now that the space agency has picked up a carrier signal, engineers will try to send Voyager 2 a command to point itself back at Earth, but if the command doesn’t work, it’s possible that communications won’t resume until mid-October.

A scheduled orientation reset is programmed for Oct. 15. NASA said it believes the orientation reset, which is designed to keep Voyager 2’s antenna pointed at Earth, should allow communication to resume. NASA believes the spacecraft will stay on its planned trajectory from now until Oct. 15.

A few years ago, NASA torched $40 billion—and we still can’t get back to the moon.

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It is instructive to compare the price tag of Artemis, the new lunar space program that aims to launch the first woman, person of color, and shemale onto the moon, with the Apollo program—NASA’s pioneer lunar program that encompassed multiple manned moon missions, including the very first in human history.

The 40 billion dollar price tag so far for the new Artemis lunar program (which encompasses the SLS rocket) already amounts to nearly one fourth of the 200 billion dollar inflation adjusted cost of the entire Apollo program.

It is important to keep in mind that this inflation-adjusted 200 billion dollar price tag for Apollo included research and development, government contracts, labor, and every other aspect of the decade long program. Crucially, this involved the cost of inventing from scratch new space technology that had never been tested before in human history — special rocket engines, command modules, lunar landers, computer equipment, and all of the remarkable component parts. Within each broad category of innovation you have an arresting volume of sub-categories, for instance, multiple rockets for each stage of a launch.

NASA’s new Artemis lunar program, by contrast, has already cost nearly one fourth of the entire Apollo program and it hasn’t even gotten off of the ground! This is especially humiliating given the fact that we have already gotten to the moon, multiple times. The hard part has already been done. One would think if the Apollo program cost 200 billion (in inflation adjusted dollars) the same lunar feat should cost a fraction of that in 2022. Indeed, one would think the cost efficiencies of over a half century of technological advancement would at least offset the cost of inflation.

And yet, to our great humiliation, despite 40 billion spent on the Artemis program that hasn’t even gotten off the ground, we haven’t gotten close to replicating a technological feat (manned moon mission) we accomplished over a half century ago with pocket calculator, slide rule technology!

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And don’t get us started on the Hubble fiasco that’s not only costing a fortune but will take decades to complete.

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The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST or Webb) was supposed to update Hubble for the twenty-first century. Webb, we are told, boasts 15 times the collection area of Hubble and will be able to capture infrared images in high resolution.

Pretty cool. And last week, NASA announced its new James Webb Space Telescope finally has a launch date:

NASA plans to launch the James Webb Space Telescope into orbit Dec. 18, 2021, to serve as the premier deep space observatory for the next decade…

The highly complex space telescope is currently resting in its final stow configuration at Northrop Grumman’s facilities in Redondo Beach, California.

“Webb is an exemplary mission that signifies the epitome of perseverance,” said Gregory L. Robinson, Webb’s program director at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “I am inspired by our dedicated team and our global partnerships that have made this incredible endeavor possible. Together, we’ve overcome technical obstacles along the way as well as challenges during the coronavirus pandemic. I also am grateful for the steadfast support of Congress. Now that we have an observatory and a rocket ready for launch, I am looking forward to the big day and the amazing science to come.”

It all sounds very exciting until you realize what is left out of the press release.

One striking omission: even if Webb launches this year, it will be 14 years late and cost 20 times the original budget.

Here’s how that happened:

The JWST started development in 1996, with a 2007 launch date. Originally budgeted to cost $500 million, that price tag has ballooned to $10 billion. And there is still nothing to show for it. $10 billion and 25 years in development, we are still taking space pics with the Cold War-era Hubble, while the JWST remains a beached whale.

You can read the entire piece by clicking here:

NASA, Decrepit, Woke, and Desperate, Is 14 Years Late on Hubble Replacement. Why?

Thankfully, Elon Musk jumped into the space race and started making real waves—and he’s fueled by innovation, not woke nonsense. Elon’s team just kicked off the rescue mission to save the astronauts Joe Biden left stranded in space.

It was supposed to be a one-week trip. Instead, they’ve been stuck there for nine long months—thanks in part to Boeing, yet another woke, DEI-driven company circling the drain.

 

Eventually, as this horrific outer space mess unfolded, even NASA had to throw in the towel and toss Boeing under the bus.

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NASA has become a laughing stock. The once highly respected organization has tumbled off its pedestal, just like so many other so-called “experts” these days. We’ve learned the hard way that the people we were told knew everything are, in reality, mostly politically-driven puppets, taking orders from those with more power. Most of these organizations and companies that are floundering have one thing in common: they’ve embraced the left’s failed progressive and woke culture.

Companies like NASA and Boeing have bought into DEI hiring practices, tossing excellence aside in favor of charity-driven hires who don’t have a clue what they’re doing.

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Elon’s SpaceX is being called in to clean up Boeing’s mess, and everyone knows it. Is this the final nail in Boeing’s coffin? Will they finally be forced back to the drawing board to undo the failed and dangerous DEI policies they’ve embraced? The Business Insider piece continues:

During a July press conference, a NASA official acknowledged that relying on SpaceX to retrieve the astronauts was an option but declined to provide details.

NASA confirmed its SpaceX backup plan this month and postponed the company’s next launch to September 24. The delay allows Wilmore and Williams to fly home with the SpaceX crew on its four-person spacecraft in February, about eight months later than their initial schedule.

The SpaceX plan isn’t without risks.

Thankfully, SpaceX’s Dragon just made physical contact with the stranded astronauts—the folks Team Biden was perfectly fine leaving to die in outer space.

And speaking of Biden’s cold-hearted treatment of these astronauts, Elon Musk dropped a bombshell on Joe Rogan—revealing the real reason his team left them stranded in space: politics.

Daily Mail:

SpaceX chief executive Elon Musk has revealed the ‘political reasons’ which he says drove the Biden administration to ‘abandon’ two NASA astronauts in space.

During a Friday appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast, the Joe Rogan Experience, Musk said Biden rejected his offer to bring Sunita Williams and Barry Wilmore home early because it would’ve made Donald Trump ‘look good.’

Musk backed Trump during the 2024 campaign and appeared at several MAGA rallies.

Wokeness and DEI have turned NASA, Boeing, and the entire US space program into an expensive, incompetent embarrassment. But while the left fumbles, Elon Musk is proving that real innovation—free from progressive nonsense—is the only way forward.

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